Cultural heritage institutions and libraries often digitize for the purpose of opening up access. An imbalanced copyright system, a lack of information about copyright and public domain status, materials challenges to digitization, and other issues interfere with this goal. How can we improve access and build better tools for achieving that goal from a legal, technical, and community perspective? How can we move past licenses into collaboration and community-building?
Session Goals:
Tell the public the projects we are currently working on, how they can be fostered and what are our visions for the future.
Identify areas of work where we can enhance collaboration.
Provide input for the Open GLAM Platform.
Speakers:
The Internet Archive is a digital archive with the mission of providing universal access to human knowledge. Our Library2020 project—which seeks to provide libraries everywhere with free access to four million digital books—is one of eight semi-finalists for the MacArthur 100&Change grant challenge.
The uruguayan database of authors (autores.uy) is a project to gather all the information about uruguayan authors relevant for identifying the copyright status of their works. The aim of this project is to allow institutions a safeguard for their digitization projects. The data is freely available online and can be downloaded freely in an open format.
OurDigitalWorld is a Canadian non-profit building tools for sharing digitized cultural heritage, working with over 200 GLAM organizations. Our VITA collections toolkit currently hosts over 2.4 million pieces of cultural heritage from across North America.
